[R-sig-Geo] geocoding street addresses within R, not using any web-based services

[Alex Mandel]

A local postgis setup could work too, http://postgis.net/docs/Extras.html

Can probably use it from R with RPostgresql

Enjoy,
Alex

On 01/22/2016 01:50 AM, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
> Dear Christopher,
> 
> Have a look at the rgeos and spgrass6 packages. rgeos provides several GIS
> operations. spgrass6 allows to move data from R to GRASS GIS (and vice
> versa). You can run GRASS operations from within R.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thierry
> 
> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
> Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
> Forest
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> 2016-01-21 16:18 GMT+01:00 Christopher W. Ryan <cryan at binghamton.edu>:
> 
>> Hello. I'm a longtime R and R-help user, and recent listener on
>> R-sig-geo. First post here. I use R on both Win 7 and Linux Mint.
>>
>> Is there a way to geocode street addresses in the US within R on my
>> local machine, that is, without transmitting the addresses to any
>> web-based service?  I have about 26,000 street addresses for a certain
>> type of ambulance call. I'd prefer (so does my Institutional Review
>> Board) that the addresses remain with me.
>>
>> So far I have been using ArcGIS to geocode them on my own machine, and
>> then export the resulting shapefiles of point patterns to R, for
>> analysis with spatstat. But I'd rather to it all within R if possible.
>> (I get frustrated with menu-driven ArcGIS.)
>>
>> My data are street addresses, not lon/lat coordinates. I have street
>> segment databases for the relevant counties from the US Census Bureau
>> TIGER shapefiles.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> --Chris Ryan
>> Broome County Health Department and
>> Binghamton University and
>> SUNY Upstate Medical University
>> Binghamton, NY
>>
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